78: Bringing his wife and children to Harbin Institute of Technology

"Name?"

"Ye Bingwen".

"age?"

"21 years old."

Do you know what you've done wrong?

Inside the interrogation room, cold incandescent light dimly illuminated the space, and patches of dark green wall paint were peeling off.

Ye Bingwen pondered for a moment and said, "Officer, Li Sanguang reported me because I'm taking the capitalist road?"

"You know you're on the capitalist road!"

Li Erniu shouted sternly, "Current counter-revolutionary, disrupting social order—any one of these charges is enough to get you shot!"

"Officer, please calm down." Ye Bingwen glanced at the eyebrows and eyes that were extremely similar to Li Sanguang's. "I was talking about the reasons Li Sanguang reported me, not that I admitted to committing a crime. You can't lie like this to get a confession."

The young detective standing nearby couldn't help but glance at Li Erniu, whose expression changed slightly.

"Compared to taking the capitalist road."

Ye Bingwen said calmly, "I prefer to call myself a person who has strengthened the production responsibility system. You can check the data; Daxing Village delivered the most grain last year."

Don't play word games with me!

Li Erniu said, "If you don't confess now, you'll confess sooner or later! Humph!"

......

After one round of interrogation, the junior detective in charge of taking notes clearly had a lot to say, but Li Erniu waved his hand and simply refused.

During the midday break, Li Erniu slowly left the Peking Opera house and met up with Li Sanguang in a narrow alley.

"How is it? Has Ye Bingwen confessed?"

Li Sanguang asked hesitantly.

"They're keeping their mouths shut; it'll probably be a long time before they do."

Li Erniu lit a cigarette, then, with a hint of disrespect, blew a puff of smoke in Li Sanguang's face. "Brother-in-law, you did a really bad job. Come to think of it, you were able to marry my sister because Ye Bingwen gave you the money, right?"

Li Sanguang's face flushed red and then turned pale, and he felt extremely embarrassed.

That was indeed the case back then.

Despite being a village chief, Li Sanguang's family was dirt poor.

Wang Ye is a common surname in Daxing Village, and his appointment as village chief is merely a compromise.

Li Sanguang was over thirty and still unmarried, which made him anxious. Just then, Ye Bingwen proposed this idea, which he thought was pretty good, so he gritted his teeth and went along with it.

Just as Li Erniu said, Ye Bingwen helped pay a lot of money for the wedding!

As a result, he has now reported Ye Bingwen... This is indeed a very unethical thing to do.

"You can't blame your brother-in-law for being heartless."

Li Sanguang said hesitantly, "The national policy has changed. If they really investigate Daxing Village, your sister and I will be in deep trouble. You can't just watch your nephew lose his parents so early!"

Upon hearing this, Li Erniu also sighed.

This is what human relationships, society, and family ties are all about—they're constantly held together by these very things.

"Alright, you can go back now."

Li Erniu was already feeling irritated, so he said, "I'll go back and interrogate her again. Go wait for news."

"well!"

Li Sanguang was terrified, so much so that he could tolerate his brother-in-law's tone: "I suddenly remembered that Ye Bingwen took the college entrance examination. Could that be used as evidence that he's taking the capitalist road?"

Fuck you!

Li Erniu cursed, "That's a legitimate college entrance exam! It's supported by national policy! Are you crazy?!"

This time, Li Erniu ignored Li Sanguang completely and went straight back to the police station.

However, he had never taken the college entrance examination, and his only experience was participating in maintaining order at the examination site, so he didn't really know much about it.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Erniu found the instructor and asked in a low voice:

"Instructor, will the college entrance exam allow me to meet some very important people?"

The instructor shook his head and chuckled: "What are you thinking? The college entrance exam is just an exam; there's no such opportunity! If such a good thing existed, wouldn't everyone be taking the college entrance exam?"

The instructor was one of the few cultured people in the police station; he had read many books, and Li Erniu wanted to respect what he said.

Since the instructor said so, Li Erniu calmed down and focused on interrogating Ye Bingwen.

......

Meanwhile, at Ping'an County Railway Station.

Due to historical reasons, Shenyang has a very developed railway transportation system. Even a small county like Ping'an County has a small train station.

"It would be so nice if this student were in Harbin."

Cai Xun, then the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, got out of the car in a flurry of activity. The surrounding noise made it difficult for him to hear his companions.

"Thank goodness he wasn't in Harbin!"

Chen Zhongshi shouted, "Of all these departments... only our Mechanical Engineering department is willing to offer him a job. If he were a local from Harbin, he wouldn't have to worry about finding a job!"

Cai Xun grinned, unable to articulate his true thoughts.

He did indeed make a great effort to win over Ye Bingwen as a student.

This child is truly outstanding; out of a possible score of 500, he scored a whopping 494!

Most importantly, after making inquiries from various sources, Cai Xun learned a little-known fact.

This child never went to high school!

In other words.

Self-taught, 494 points!

We must try our best no matter what.

So Cai Xun used all his persuasive skills and finally managed to get a position in the publicity department from the department, which solved his employment problem.

All that's left is to bring Cai Xun back to Harbin safely.

Cai Xun felt he had to act quickly, and he knew he wouldn't be the only one to secure a position for Ye Bingwen.

Sure enough, I ran into an acquaintance as soon as I got off the bus.

"Ma Kui".

Cai Xun sneered, "What kind of position did you offer? You didn't just give up your position as head of the math department to that little girl, did you?"

"That's an awful thing to say!"

Ma Kui blinked. "Let's all compete fairly. Is it a case of 'the magistrate is allowed to set fires, but the common people are forbidden even to light lamps'?"

"snort!"

Cai Xun snorted coldly.

The two groups of four people slowly walked out of the train station, bickering and marveling at how wonderful and kind their motherland was.

Cai Xun, with his sharp eyes, immediately spotted a little girl holding a clapper outside the train station with the words "Harbin Institute of Technology" clearly written on it!

"Something's up here!"

Cai Xun muttered to himself, quietly slipped away from the group, and found Zheng Shuyun in the crowd.

"Girl, what's the meaning of holding up that sign?"

Cai Xun asked kindly.

Zheng Shuyun took a half step back, her eyes full of wariness. "You, who are you?"

Cai Xun said, "I am an admissions officer from Harbin Institute of Technology. A student from your county has been admitted to our school, and we have come to pick him up."

Zheng Shuyun was stunned for a moment, her big eyes gradually welling up with tears, and she sobbed:

"Bingwen, Bingwen has been arrested and taken to the police station!"

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